Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall, dragged packing cases containing family heirlooms out to the lawn, broke them open, took their pick and went their way. After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid suppressed excitement and Lord Halifax's remains were interred in the family vault. "They even stole some of his war decorations," shocked servants told newsmen, "and some decorations that didn't have any diamonds they just threw away on the lawn...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note...
John and Mary were married in Toledo in 1930 and went to Ontario to live with Mary's parents. John lost his job and was refused relief because he was a U. S. citizen. In desperation he stole some gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: "I guess there is nothing more...
...desk. By the time he is ready to organize his defense, the girl's father has been twice tried and condemned to death. He is in the death house at Sing Sing and it is only by pointing a revolver at the real murderer, a gangster who first stole Mrs. Barringer's affections, that Barringer saves his client's life with only 20 seconds to spare...